Submissions

Q: Does LarkNews accept submissions?

A: Yes. If you want to share an idea with us, email it in 250 characters or less with “Submission” in the subject line. We respond only to ideas we want to purchase, and if we want it we’ll respond within 90 days.

Q: What is the payment?

A: We believe the world is heading toward a single currency: Starbucks cards. To stay ahead of that trend, we pay in Starbucks cards for any idea purchased. Contributors will receive a special LarkNews Preferred Starbucks card pre-loaded with $20. It’s our way of making your friends jealous.

Q: Why don’t you respond to my idea personally?

A: We get too many submissions. We don’t want any more friends.

Q: Why consider my idea for 90 days?

A: To give our staff time and opportunity to have a beer over it.

Q: How do I know when my 90 days begins?

A: It begins the day you submit the idea.

Q: How do I know you got my idea?

A: You’ll have to trust the Internet.

Q: Why do I have to limit my idea to 250 characters?

A: If an idea can’t be told in that space, it needs more refining.

Q: How will I know if you want to buy my idea?

A: We will email you.

Q: How will I know if you DON’T want to buy my idea?

A: You will not hear from us.

Q: Why don’t you send rejection letters?

A: That’s not the kind of relationship we want with our readers. We appreciate every idea we receive and potential contributors should know that.

Q: If my idea is bought, what happens then?

A: We will email you a contract giving us the rights to it, you will sign and send it back, and we will send you the aforementioned Lark Preferred Starbucks card

Q: Do I get to write the story?

A: No.

Q: Do you also own my firstborn?

A: No.

Q: Anything else?

A: By sending your idea to LarkNews, you agree that the idea becomes property of LarkNews. This is necessary because story ideas come in that are similar to ones we are writing, or similar to what other people are sending in.